Founding · Fall 2026 10 seats per group

Ten Weeks To A Real, Launched Business.

An in-person entrepreneurship cohort in Windermere for middle and high schoolers, grouped by grade. Ten students maximum per group, twenty sessions, and a real business your child launches with real customers.

This cohort is an approved Step Up For Students offering. Eligible under PEP, FES-UA, FES-EO and FTC.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book A 15-Minute Call

Taught by Adam SeebeckMoney-back through session 3
Launch
Your child's first business
Real customers, real dollars, real lessons
Sold at Pitch and Market Night
Launched and sold Example
10
Seats in the room
40
Hours in person
Books by your instructor
1
Real business launched
Adam Seebeck, unQbd founder
Founder of unQbd
Your Instructor

Taught by a founder, not a worksheet.

Adam Seebeck · Founder and former company president

Adam founded unQbd, a reading and streaming platform for books, and before that was the president of a healthcare software development company. He has a business management degree, years of college-level teaching, and 17 published books, several at #1 in their Amazon category.

Your child learns pricing from someone who has set prices, and pitching from someone who has pitched. Not theory. The real thing, from someone who does this for a living.

Former company president
Business management degree
College-level instructor
17 books published
The Outcome

What your child walks away with.

Not a worksheet in a binder. Real skills, and a business they built and ran themselves.

Real pricing and margin

How to price, what margin means, and why some products make money and others do not. The math that runs every business.

A business they launched

A real product or service your child built, priced, and sold to real customers during the cohort.

The nerve to pitch

Talking to strangers about what they made, taking feedback without folding, and pitching in front of a room.

Fluent with AI tools

They learn to use AI the way working founders do, for research, marketing copy, and mockups, and to tell good output from garbage.

The founder's mindset

Initiative, resilience, and the confidence that comes from making something people actually pay for.

How It Works

Small, in-person, and built to last ten weeks.

Choose your preferred daytime or evening group on Mondays and Wednesdays. If your preferred group does not fill, choose another available group or take a full refund. We confirm your group before any tuition beyond the deposit is due.

Mondays and Wednesdays
Daytime 10am-12pm or evening 6-8pm
Sep 14 to Nov 18
2026, before Thanksgiving
Windermere
625 Main Street, Suite 27B
10 students, max
Grouped by grade
The Ten Weeks

From first idea to Pitch and Market Night.

Three phases, each building on the last. Every student finishes with a business they ran.

Weeks 1 to 3

Ideas and validation

  • Find a real problem worth solving
  • Test whether anyone will actually pay
  • Choose an idea you can build
Weeks 4 to 7

Build and first sales

  • Make the product or service
  • Price it, sell it, and adjust
  • Track what you earn
Weeks 8 to 10

Grow and pitch

  • Double down on what worked
  • Prepare the pitch and the table
  • Pitch and Market Night
The Textbook

We wrote the book for this class.

Your child does not get a worksheet packet. They get a real book, written for this cohort, with twenty chapters that track the twenty sessions. It is theirs to keep.

There are two editions, one for middle school and one for high school, so your child works from the book written for their group rather than a single volume stretched across both. Adam wrote them the same way he wrote the seventeen books already on Amazon. Miss a session and the chapter is waiting.

An edition per grade group
20 chapters, one per session
Yours to keep
Printed, not a PDF
Ten Weeks to a Real Business, the middle school edition of the course textbook
Middle school edition
Ten Weeks to a Real Business, the high school edition of the course textbook
High school edition
Enrollment

Reserve your seat, risk-free.

Put down the refundable $100 and let the first three sessions be your trial. If it is not right, tell us before session four. We issue a full refund.

Founding rate
$1,995
for the full 10-week cohort · 40 hours in person, just under $50 an hour
Groups confirmed August 21.
10 seats per group

Not ready to decide? Come see it free on Saturday, August 15.

  • Twenty 2-hour in-person sessions, 40 hours total
  • Small group, ten students maximum
  • A printed copy of the course textbook, written for this class and yours to keep
  • The founder toolkit: one-page plan, pricing worksheet, profit tracker
  • A weekly recap for you after every session
  • A year of unQbd Premium for your family
  • Money-back guarantee through session 3
  • Finish-it guarantee: a pitch at Pitch and Market Night, or your tuition back
Your $100 deposit is fully refundable. It is applied to your tuition. Paying privately? The balance is due two weeks before session one, or split it into two payments of $947.50.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book A 15-Minute Call

Using a Step Up For Students scholarship?

unQbd is an approved Step Up For Students service provider, and this cohort is an approved service offering, eligible under PEP, FES-UA, FES-EO and FTC. Step Up pays only after instruction is delivered, so you pay us and then file for reimbursement, and we send you the itemized invoice and provider details they ask for. Check with Step Up that your student's account covers this before you pay. If it does not work out, your deposit comes back.

Before You Commit

Come see it before you commit

Saturday, August 15. Drop in any time, 10:00am - 12:00pm ET, in Windermere.

A free, no-pressure drop-in for parents. Come any time in the window, stay as long as you like. Adam will walk you through exactly what the ten weeks look like, show you a live build so you can see what your student will actually make, and answer whatever you want to ask. Students are welcome but not required.

Seats in the room are limited. RSVP so we know to expect you.

Our Guarantee

You take no risk. We do.

This is our founding cohort, so we put the risk on us rather than on you. Two guarantees, and every seat is covered by both.

Leave by session 3.

Attend the first three sessions. If it is not right for your child, tell us before session four. We issue a full refund. Your child keeps the printed textbook.

Finish with something real.

By the last session your child has stood up and pitched the business they built at Pitch and Market Night. Attend the sessions, do the work, and if that does not happen, we refund your full tuition.

Read both guarantees in full

The First Three Sessions Guarantee

Attend the first three sessions. Tell us any time before session four begins and we refund your full tuition, including the $100 deposit. No forms and no questions.

Your child keeps the printed textbook.

The Finish It Guarantee

Your child finishes the cohort having pitched the business they built at Pitch and Market Night.

To qualify:

  • Attend at least 16 of the 20 sessions, including the final session
  • Submit the assigned work
  • Request the refund within 14 days of the final session

If your child meets these and that does not happen, we refund your full tuition.

If a scholarship reimbursed you

This applies to both guarantees. If Step Up For Students reimbursed part of your tuition, their rules require that amount to go back to your student's scholarship account rather than to you.

Anything you paid yourself, including the $100 deposit, comes back to you.

Questions

Everything a parent asks first.

Does my child need any business experience?

No. We start from the basics and build up. The kid who sells snacks out of their backpack and the kid who has never thought about business both do well in this room.

Can I see the space and meet you before I pay anything?

Yes. There is a free open house on Saturday, August 15 in Windermere, and you can drop in any time 10:00am - 12:00pm ET. RSVP so we know to expect you. If you would rather talk one-on-one first, book a 15-minute parent call instead.

Who is the cohort for?

Middle and high schoolers. We place students by grade so each group has the right pace and projects.

Do they run an actual business? With actual money?

Yes, deliberately small. Products and services stay small-dollar and parent-visible: you always know what your child is selling and what they earned. We teach the tracking, and the profit is theirs.

Isn't this just a lemonade stand?

It starts where the lemonade stand ends. Real pricing, real margin, repeat customers, and a pitch in front of a room. The stand is a Saturday. This is ten weeks of learning why some stands work.

What about AI?

Founders use AI every day now. Your child learns to use it the way professionals do, for research, marketing copy, and product mockups, and to know when the output is garbage.

When does it meet?

In person in Windermere, Mondays and Wednesdays. The daytime option is 10am to 12pm; the evening option is 6pm to 8pm. Ten weeks, from September 14 to November 18, ending with Pitch and Market Night.

Where exactly is it?

625 Main Street, Suite 27B, Windermere, FL 34786. We are on the second floor, head upstairs. Windermere is convenient to Winter Garden, Horizon West, Hamlin, Dr. Phillips, Ocoee, Clermont, and Minneola. If the drive turns out not to work for your family, the money-back guarantee through session 3 still applies.

Do you have a homeschool or daytime option?

Yes. A daytime option is available on the same days, 10am to 12pm, and is built for homeschool families. Select it as your preference when reserving.

What does my child need to bring?

A laptop they can bring to each session. We send the minimum specs at enrollment and have one loaner if you need it. We set up all the software with your family the week before, so session one is spent building, not installing.

Is there a textbook?

Yes, a printed one, and it is included. We wrote it for this class: twenty chapters, one per session, so a student who misses a week can catch up from the book instead of falling behind. There are two editions, one for middle school and one for high school, and your child gets the one written for their group. Your child keeps their copy.

What if we miss a session?

Life happens. Every session has a written recap and materials, so your child catches up at home with no lost ground.

Is my child safe and supervised?

Drop your child off or stay for the session, whichever suits you. You are welcome to sit in on any session, every session. At enrollment we collect your emergency contacts and the adults allowed to pick your child up, and we release students only to someone on that list. High schoolers can sign themselves out if you tell us that is fine. All communication outside the classroom runs through you, never directly with your child.

Will my child's name or photo be published anywhere?

Not unless you say so. We do not post photos of your child, their school, their age, or any location more specific than West Orlando. If their work is shown as an example later, you choose the name on it: a first name and last initial, a first name only, a display name your child picks, or no name at all. If you want something renamed or taken down, email us and it is done, no reason needed.

Who owns the business my child starts?

Your child does. The idea, the product, and the profit are theirs to keep. We only ask permission to show their work as an example of what students build, and you can withdraw that at any time.

How much is it, and how does payment work?

The founding rate is $1,995 for the full ten weeks, which works out to just under $50 per in-person hour. A $100 refundable deposit saves a seat and is applied to your tuition. Paying privately, you can settle the balance two weeks before the first session or split it into two payments of $947.50, the first two weeks before session one and the second at the halfway point. Using a Step Up scholarship? You pay the same way, then file for reimbursement. See the scholarship question below.

Can I use a Step Up For Students scholarship?

Yes. unQbd is an approved Step Up For Students service provider and this cohort is an approved service offering, eligible under PEP, FES-UA, FES-EO and FTC.

One thing to know up front: Step Up pays a provider only after instruction has been delivered, so scholarship funds cannot cover the deposit or an up-front tuition payment. You pay us, then file for reimbursement. Reimbursement requests can be submitted up to four months ahead of the sessions being taught, which covers this cohort end to end.

We send you an itemized invoice with the provider details Step Up asks for. Confirm with Step Up that your student's account covers this before you pay. Only Step Up For Students can confirm what an account covers.

What if it turns out not to be the right fit?

Tell us before session four begins. We issue a full refund. If Step Up For Students reimbursed you, their rules require the refunded amount to go back to your student's scholarship account rather than to you.

What kinds of businesses?

Small physical products, digital goods, and services. Each student picks their own, and part of the course is learning to choose well.

Who teaches the cohort?

Adam Seebeck. The former president of a healthcare software development company, a business management graduate, a college-level instructor, and the founder of unQbd.

10 seats per group

Save your child a seat in the founding cohort.

Ten students per group. One founder who has done it. One business your child launches for real. Reserve with a refundable $100 deposit and let the first sessions prove it.

Not ready yet? Come to the free open house on Saturday, August 15

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